Improvement in process of inking perforated writing



A. E. HIX.

PROCESS or INKING PERFORATED WRITING.

No. 192,624. Patented July 3,1877.

NKFETERS, FHOTO-UTHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON, II)v C.

ALBERT E. HIX, OF SYGAMORE, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN PROCESS QF lNKlNG PERFORATED WRITING.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. H92,624l, dated July 3,1877 application filed April 7, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT E. HIX, of Sycamore, in the county of De Kalband State of Illinois, have invented a new and valuable Improvement inthe Process of lnking Perforated Writing; and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description of theconstruction and operation of the same, reference being had to theannexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to theletters and figures of reference marked thereon.

This invention has relation to improvements in stencil-writing.

The object of my invention is to utilize the usual stencil-pen inproducing a novel description of writing, which can be as clearly readas print, and which cannot be obliterated without so altering theappearance of the writing as to present patent evidence of such intent,whether criminal or otherwise.

The nature of my invention will be fully understood from the followingdescription:

0n the table of any stencil-pen is first laid a sheet or shield of anysuitable material that will shield the surface of said table from beingindented and defaced by the point of the pen. This shield may becomposed of a fold or folds of blotting-paper, or of wrapping-paper, orit may consist of compressed felt, or a sheet or sheets of rubber. Uponthis pad or shield is laid a sheet of flannel or other cloth saturatedwith a semi-fluid ink of any desired color; but what 1 at present preferto use, as combining the features of the shield and inksheets, is one ormore sheets of woolen cloth laid upon a sheet of tin, the edges of whichare turned over and pressed upon the edges of the cloth, so as to holditin place. By this means the ink-pad may be handled without soiling thefingers or the stencil-table.

Upon the ink-pad is laid a sheet of paper or other fibrous material thatwill protect the under side of the paper to be stenciled from beingstained. The latter is laid smoothly upon the guard, and the stencil-penoperated in the usual manner. The point of the needle penetrates thepaper to be stenciled and the guard between 'it and the ink-pad at everystroke, and thereby inks the edges of the punctures, so that each letterand word is clearly legible as it is formed, and all danger of omittingcharacters, figures, and the like is as clearly guarded against as inordinary writing. The peculiar writing thus made is not only as clearlylegible as ordinary penwriting, but is also incapable of being blottedout or erased without so injuring the texture of the paper as to showthat such attempts have been made. The edges of the puncture beingoiled, the stencil-writer is the better able to produce a perfectimpression, since the materials used in making the copy are very readilyforced through the stencil-punctures owing to such oiling.

It is evident that as many duplicates of the stencil may be formed asthere are sheets of paper; but as a general thing only one of the sheetswill have punctures oiled.

Having described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by LettersPatent- 1. The process of inking the edges of the punctures in astencil-writing by forcing the pen through the paper into an ink-pad,and depositing the ink upon its return movement, substantially asspecified.

2. An inking-pad, consisting of a sheet of tin or other suitablematerial placed beneath and folded at the edges upon the ink-holdingfabrics, and provided with a guard upon its upper surface, substantiallyas specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

1 ALBERT-E. HIX.

Witnesses:

O. L. JOHANSON, EDWIN WAITE.

